Outburst Arts Festival will run from 15 – 23 November 2024. Northern Ireland’s annual queer arts festival celebrates LGBTQI+ community activists, artists and writers. With years of love, passion, wonderful allies and pure creative boldness, Outburst has grown into one of the leading festivals in Belfast for cutting edge writing, performance and art.
Outburst Festival
Phil Collins: they shoot horses
Outburst invites you to join us for a special twentieth anniversary presentation of the newly restored and remastered…
It Was Paradise, Unfortunately
Using his training as a journalist, Raphaël Amahl Khouri makes an extraordinary, ground-breaking discovery, offering a bold &…
Shame Show
For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW, a sketchy comedy of catastrophic…
It’s Turned Out Nice Again
Belfast based artist Thomas Wells creates a love letter to his working class Mancuian roots,
Phil Collins: Mixtape #1
Outburst Queer Arts Festival and Ulster Presents at Ulster University mark the 175th Anniversary of the Belfast School…
Little Did I Know
Little Did I Know is a visual dialogue where many bridges are burned between time & intuition, land…
Homemade Undercuts: Hair, Identity and Community
Homemade Undercuts is a candid, tender and intimate new body of photographic work from Ellen Blair.
Are You On The Bus?
Are You on The Bus? is a ground-breaking collaboration between some of Belfast’s most inventive arts companies and…
Queer Art in Lithuania: From Veronika Šleivytė to Agnė Jokšė
Over the past two years, Outburst has been connecting with queer artists from Lithuania, a Baltic country with…
Queer Art Market
The 4th annual Outburst Queer Art Market is back in town for one day and one day only!
Find Another City Better Than This One
Raphaël Amahl Khouri reflects on his time living in San Fransciso, Amman, Beirut and Berlin and asks if…
Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now
Join Outburst and special guest artists, writers and curators for a Big Talk on the final day of…
